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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Amazon EC2 Crash
Last week generated the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the cloud and specifically Amazon’s cloud when their service crashed and took down a multitude of sites that depended on it. It’s taken a week, but Amazon has finally generated a vast enumeration of exactly what went down and why—the explanation is not ...
Zappos.com Puts Crowdsourcing where its Mouth is with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
The idea behind crowdsourcing has always been taking the combined efforts of a large group and directing them towards a single task. In a lot of venues, crowdsourcing can be used for charity by taking small donations from large numbers of people, it can be used to rapidly develop a lot of information about a ...
Hulu Plus on Xbox LIVE this Friday, First Week is Free
Like chocolate and peanut butter, Hulu and Xbox LIVE are great tastes that will go great together and they will be together this Friday. Starting April 29th, Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox LIVE and through a promotion the opening week will be free for XBL subscribers. The service, which offers streaming HD content of ...
Apple Reaches into iCloud.com; Facebook Acquires Daytum
It’s a strange week for acquisitions involving personal data and the lives of users this week as both Facebook and Apple have generated stories about what acquisitions they’re making. On the Apple site, we’re watching from a precipice overlooking a cloud-filled vale as the company appears to be preparing to leap into streaming music and ...
News Corp Looks to Sell MySpace as Friendster Goes Extinct
It’s the end of an era. This week Friendster announced that it’s finally giving up the ghost and will delete user photos and blog posts as it is shoved into the sepulture of old ventures. Now the owner of MySpace, News Corp, is seeking to auction off the site to the highest bidder to get ...
RIM Acquires Tungle to Round Out their Corporate Social Standing
Research In Motion, the developer of the Blackberry, has acquired Tungle in a move today that fits well with the business-centric mobile company’s past cultural decisions. Tungle.me, which produces social-calendar software, provides a powerful interface for multiple parties to schedule events and meetings together by highlighting overlapping spans of available time. It’s a brilliant tool ...
Android Video Enhanced with Skyfire 4.0 Web Browser
Android phones are in for a treat now that Skyfire 4.0 is out of the beta frying pan and into the Android Market fire. The free-to-use browser has been enhanced with eight new killer social feature that include one premium-accessible video acceleration element. They’ve updated their Skybar into a sleek toolbar displayed beneath the browser ...
Apple iPhone, iPad Tracking Issues Spawn their First Lawsuit
Seeking a judge to bar Apple from collecting location information, an iPhone user in Florida, Vikram Ajjampur, and an iPad user in New York, William Devito, have filed suit against the computer giant. The suit also asks for refunds as neither plaintiff claims that they wouldn’t have bought their devices had they known it would ...
Google Video Shutdown On Hold, Transition Eased by YouTUBE Export
The Google Vidapocalypse has been postponed when the search giant came out to tell its expectant users that they won’t need to worry about their video content, stored on their Video service. The shut down of Google Video is no longer planned for April 29th. With it goes the fears that users would lose all ...
Nintendo’s Revenue Drops as Annual Profits Tumble 66%
In yet another blow to the video game giant, Nintendo has listed their second straight year of falling annual profits. The company announced on Monday that its net profit from the fiscal year that ended on March 31st fell 66 percent to $947 million and released sales revenue figures of $12.31 billion representing a 29 ...